Beth Bailey

About The Author

Beth Bailey is a professor of history at Temple University. She is the author of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (2009), Sex in the Heartland (1999), and From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (1988).

Books by Beth Bailey

The First Strange Place

The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii

By Beth Bailey and David Farber
Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No si...
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